Comedy blog post- Isabelle Rinker

In "The Importance of Being Earnest", humor varies from satire to farce, to witty banter. Particularly, I enjoyed the proposal scent between Jack and Gwendolyn, which my friends and I decided to act out for Lit class. This scene contains a lot of satire, critiquing the members of the "high society" during that time period. For example, the character I portray, Gwendolyn, says during that scene, "In fact, I am never wrong." The characters act extremely pretentious, and the snooty dialogue satirizes the way people of "high society" acting during the time. This is a common theme throughout many Hollywood films, such as "Mean Girls", where the "higher class" individuals act pretentious, which may or may not be a conscious choice by their directors to satirize the "high society" people of real life. In "Mean Girls", the Plastics ostracize anyone who is not a member of their clique, saying snooty things such as "You can't sit with us."